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Friday Coffee Break, Spring Break Style

Every Friday at Nothing in Biology Makes Sense! our contributors pass around links to new scientific results, or science-y news, or videos of adorable wildlife, that they’re most likely to bring up while waiting in line for a latte.

To get things started, CJ found a depressing study (depending on your perspective anyway) about how your attitude can affect your health. It’s not what you would expect a study to find, but there are additional conflicting studies so take it as you will. However, she follows it up with another article about how the privatization of space flight has a long way to go before we can all reach for the stars.